Stumble it!A list of things from Spanish Inquisitor
posted in Religion, Society by themaiden |I’ll eventually get back to writing posts of my own, but for now Things I’m Getting Tired Of Hearing from Spanish Inquisitor.
First: Atheism Is A Religion.
No it’s not.
The Inquisitor needn’t go further than that quip as a minimum effort at actually thinking pretty much closes the case. But the Inquisitor does continue, perhaps realizing as I have that ‘a minimum effort at actually thinking’ is asking quite a lot. The rabidly faithful need things spelled out.
Second: Righteous
I’m not sure what it is about this word I don’t like. It rubs me the wrong way, like a marble on a blackboard, to coin a cliché.
I can tell you why it bugs me. Whatever it means strictly– that is, whatever it means according to the dictionary– what it means in real life is “a mode of thinking, ethic, or behavior that accords with the speaker’s narrow construal of reality”.
Third: Christian Rock Music
‘Nuff said.
Yes. Exactly.
Fourth: I Don’t Believe In Evolution
This may actually be proper English and grammar, but it still grates on my cochlear nerve. Belief is used to describe something that one has mentally accepted or is convinced to be the truth. Implied in any belief is a certain level of knowledge about or experience with the subject matter of the belief. In other words, a belief is usually based on something. One doesn’t pull it out of thin air, i.e. nothing. If I believe the leaves will fall from the trees this fall, it is because I have knowledge, based on years of experience in which leaves have consistently, without exception, fallen from the trees in the autumn. Similarly, if I believe my wife loves me, it is because I have firsthand knowledge of her love - her declarations, her actions, many large and small bits of information I’ve gleaned from our years together, coupled with a lack of evidence to the contrary.
With the usual lack of belief in evolution from theists, however, I find that there is a concomitant lack of knowledge. In fact, the less they know about evolution, the less they believe in it. Ask a theist why they don’t believe, and they will give you answers that are anything but based on knowledge or understanding of the scientific theory. For example, if they’ve been reading creationist literature, they might say that they don’t believe in evolution because of gaps in the fossil record, or because there is no evidence of transitional fossils, when in fact it would be a supernatural miracle if we didn’t have gaps in the fossil record, and there is much evidence of transitional fossils.
So the phrase, I don’t believe in evolution is usually a red flag indicating ignorance, usually raised because theists stubbornly refuse to raise the white flag of defeat.
That one was too good to quote only in part.
Fifth: Atheists Are Responsible For Banning Prayer in Schools
Sad, isn’t it? It’s sad because it’s so stupid.
Why is it so stupid? Because no one, not a single soul (sorry) has ever been prevented from praying in school, by the Supreme Court or anyone else….
What the law, and the Constitution, prevents is being lead in mandated prayer by the school authorities.
Again, on the nose. I wonder if there’d be such an outcry about the banning of prayer in school if the good Christian kids were being led in Islamic prayer? “Oh! Red herring,” you say. No it isn’t. That is exactly the problem with prayer is school. It is forcing religious observance on people whether they wish it or not.
Sixth: The United States Is A Christian Nation
Practically all major governments up to 1776 were patterned on those set forth in the Bible. The American Revolution was a rebellion against that type of government (a monarchy, where all powers of government are concentrated in one individual, where religious freedom was non-existent, etc.).
It is fun to use history for Evil, isn’t it?
Finally: Darminism
… most people who like to bandy about the word, Darwinism, are usually not qualified to do so.
In fact, in my book, use of the word immediately disqualifies them.
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